HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
Communications Office 
Room 609 Legislative Office Building Atlanta, Georgia 30334 404.656.0305 1.877.222.2768 
 
For Immediate Release 
 
May 1, 2005 
 
Speaker Richardson appoints a House Education Funding Study Committee 
Atlanta Today House Speaker Glenn Richardson (R-Hiram) appointed State Representatives Jerry Keen ( R-St. Simons Island), Larry O'Neal (RWarner Robbins), Richard Royal (D-Camilla), Jan Jones (R-Alpharetta), and Martin Scott (R-Rossville) to the House Education Funding Study Committee. 
 
CONTACT: Brent Cranfield 
 
The committee will study proposals to amend the Constitution to eliminate the requirement of local funding of education by ad valorem taxation and provide instead for the imposition of a state sales and use tax for this purpose. The committee was created by the passage of House Resolution 488. The study committee will end its meetings on or before the convening day of the 2006 regular session. 
 
404-656-0305 
 
Rep. Jerry Keen will Chair the study committee. 
 
bcranfield@legis.state.ga. 
 
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